Dec: 19: The lord continued good to me and mine in all our outward mercies for which I bless and praise his most holy and precious name, the season continues dry to wonder waters never so low in any memory: the lord good to us in our friends and children my brother Jo: Humphry came to be with me a while, the lord was good to me in the sabbath. I declared I intended to give 5li. towards N. England business as a loan to the lord, no it is a debt.